Jonah Rowen is an architect
founder of Rowen Studio. He is an instructor at the Southern California
Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles.
Jonah belongs to a cohort of
young architects with an unbiased, load-free conscious, willing to revise and
argue theoretical issues posed by Rowe, Rossi and Venturi and others,
disseminating them to a new generation of architects.
Jonah is the editor of Project a new architecture theory
publication, with the participation of very prominent critics and scholars, like
Hernan Diaz Alonso, Pier Vittorio Aureli and Peter Eisenman, first
issue due in November 2010.
Jonah is also
an assistant editor working with Emmanuel Petit assembling a book of original
essays by prominent architects reckoning with the legacy of Colin Rowe, a major
intellectual influence on world architecture and urbanism century in city planning
and urban design during the second half of the 20th Century.
He’s is also
working on a collection of conversations, curated with Alfie Koetter, Daniel
Markiewicz, and Emmett Zeifman, with leading young architects including
Reinhold Martin and Kadambari Baxi, Pier Vittorio Aureli, and Jesse Reiser,
regarding the possibilities for developing an architectural project today.
Before his
appointment at SCI-ARC, Rowen worked at two prestigious New York design firms,
Gage/Clemenceau and Esenman Architects.
